Cloud Architect - AWS Ref: 41176

Your impact:

We seek an AWS Cloud Architect to join our growing Professional Services team and help our customers with their cloud journeys.

Professional Services provides market-leading solutions to help organizations across EMEA understand, protect and manage their data.  Our team delivers a diverse set of solutions from our broad portfolio of products.

The successful candidate:

Will be a skilled AWS Cloud Architect who will be responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and monitoring complex AWS cloud solutions and infrastructures.
They can demonstrate that they will be capable of becoming one of our Architects who are responsible for delivering business value to customers by architecting effective information systems solutions that address the customer’s business problems, needs and opportunities, in a manner consistent with company’s strategic and business goals. Have knowledge of architectural frameworks, methodologies, and tools and understand how to apply this knowledge to successfully deliver customer projects.

What the role offers

• Architect custom and reusable solutions of project and program or operational scope.
• Customize reusable solutions of project and program or operational scope.
• Capture and share architectural IP at the project and program level.
• Oversee the implementation and governance of architectures of project and program or operational scope.
• Contribute to the Architect profession worldwide and across the company businesses.
• Develop for client technically feasible long-term IT strategies and plans.
• Assess business impact of specific technologies/strategies, as well as
• Identify and address technical or operational risks.
• Provide review/input on project activities for medium to large business unit level projects.
• Develop and deliver sales presentations at CEO/Executive Staff/CIO levels for medium to large opportunities (R).

What you need to succeed

• Industry experience - 5 years to 10 years equivalent experience, with ideally 3 years on AWS.
• AWS solution design and migration experience, AWS certifications will be considered an advantage.
• Proficiency in AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and VPC.
• Knowledge of integrating AWS with other cloud providers or on-premises systems.
• Experience with one or more of the following cloud virtualisation technologies: VMware, SCVMM, Public Cloud (Azure, GCP), OpenStack, Terraform, Containers/Kubernetes.
• Ability to understand the customer's business problem, need, or opportunity and to design an IS solution that appropriately addresses the business problem, need, or opportunity.
• Ability to lead a team of two or more consultants in the completion of one or more architecture, requirements, operational, or implementation deliverables.
• Ability to lead the architectural design, development, deployment, and technical quality of medium to large business unit level IT based solutions (typically within multiple technology or specialty areas).
• Be able to provide architectural direction for multiple medium sized projects concurrently. For larger engagements, a single active project is reasonable.
• Understands and applies information system or operational solution related modelling methods and tools.
• Can validate/evaluate if an information systems or operational architecture meets technical requirements and specifications.
• Familiar with multiple architectural, development and operational methodologies (e.g., Zachman, TOGAF, ITSM, ...).
• Applies appropriate methodologies and SME knowledge to resolve complex business issues.

The successful candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a high level of Security Clearance.

This is a hybrid role, and the successful candidate will be required to work from Gloucester or Manchester on a regular basis (3-4 days per week).